Jerry DeMarco

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Born in Newark and raised in Hudson County, Jerry DeMarco is a 38-year veteran of the news industry and a renowned breaking news reporter. He has covered local, county and state police, as well as the FBI, ATF and other federal agencies.

DeMarco joined Daily Voice in 2015 after six years running Cliffview Pilot, one of the nation's few independent breaking news sites. As an independent publisher, he helped establish Local Independent Online News, a national trade organization.

Prior to launching his own site, DeMarco served as a reporter for the Bergen Record, Stamford Advocate, Rockland Journal News, News Tribune, and Trenton Times.

DeMarco has won national recognition for his investigative work, including Clarion, Heywood Broun and Deadline Club awards. He's changed public policy and managed several major projects -- including one that helped put a corrupt public official in federal prison and another that forced a sitting New Jersey attorney general from office for her participation in a Bergen County traffic stop involving her boyfriend.

DeMarco regularly lectures at a graduate course in media relations at Fairleigh Dickinson University and previously was an adjunct professor at Lehman College in the Bronx. 

He has a Bachelor's Degree in English from St. Peter's University in Jersey City.

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Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
TEXTERS, BEWARE: Distracted-Driver Crackdown Starts Next Week TEXTERS, BEWARE: Distracted-Driver Crackdown Starts Next Week TEXTERS, BEWARE: Distracted-Driver Crackdown Starts Next Week
Texters, Beware: Distracted-Driver Crackdown Starts Next Week With driver inattention contributing to crashes in New Jersey at a rate nine times higher than speeding, local police are amping up for another “UDrive. UText. UPay.” campaign. Beginning April 1, officers will target motorists who talk or text on hand-held cellphones while driving as part of a three-week crackdown aimed at reducing crashes. "This is clearly one of the most critical traffic safety issues that we face today," said Eric Heitmann, director of the New Jersey Division of Highway Traffic Safety. "The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reports that in 2016 alone, 3,450…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cresskill-Closter, NJ
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Feds Charge Former Mamajuana Café Co-Owner From Cresskill With Bankruptcy Fraud Feds Charge Former Mamajuana Café Co-Owner From Cresskill With Bankruptcy Fraud Feds Charge Former Mamajuana Café Co-Owner From Cresskill With Bankruptcy Fraud
Feds Charge Former Mamajuana Café Co-Owner From Cresskill With Bankruptcy Fraud Federal authorities have charged a Cresskill businessman who co-owned the popular Mamajuana Café chain of Dominican restaurants with bankruptcy fraud. An investigation by the NYPD and New York City-based Homeland Security agents led to charges against Victor Osorio, 40, who helped bring the chain to East Rutherford, Secaucus and Paterson, as well as New York and Florida. Osorio, a Dominican native who also co-owned a separate restaurant in Pennsylvania with Mamajuana partner Carlos Saint-Hilare, filed for Chapter 7 relief in U.S. District Court in Newark in February 2017, U.S. Attorney Crai…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Paterson PD: Ex-Con Drug Dealer Tosses Gun, Caught Scaling Fence Paterson PD: Ex-Con Drug Dealer Tosses Gun, Caught Scaling Fence Paterson PD: Ex-Con Drug Dealer Tosses Gun, Caught Scaling Fence
Paterson PD: Ex-Con Drug Dealer Tosses Gun, Caught Scaling Fence An ex-con drug dealer tossed a stolen handgun during a foot chase and was nabbed trying to scale a backyard fence, Paterson police said. Responding to the 2:50 p.m. gun call at Rosa Parks Boulevard and Hamilton Avenue were Officer Ernest Lemay, Detective Michael Quinones and county prosecutor’s Detective Ricardo Ferreira of the Special Investigations Division Ceasefire Unit. Standing near the intersection, a gun in his hand, was 36-year-old Anthony Moore of Amity Street, Police Director Jerry Speziale said. Seeing Lemay get out of his police cruiser, Moore bolted in the detectives’ directi…

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Saddle Brook-Elmwood Park, NJ
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Park Ridge Father, Upper Saddle River Son Admit Conning Elderly Investors Out Of Millions Park Ridge Father, Upper Saddle River Son Admit Conning Elderly Investors Out Of Millions Park Ridge Father, Upper Saddle River Son Admit Conning Elderly Investors Out Of Millions
Park Ridge Father, Upper Saddle River Son Admit Conning Elderly Investors Out Of Millions A Bergen County father and son admitted they conned mostly elderly investors out of $3 million – after getting caught earlier scamming the very same people and others out of $5.5 million. George Bussanich Sr. and his son “ruthlessly stole the life savings of elderly investors to bankroll their own expensive homes, high-end cars, and luxury dining and travel,” state Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal said. George Bussanich Jr., for example, bought a house in Upper Saddle River worth nearly $1 million. “What makes this case even more egregious is that they defrauded many of the same elderly r…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Wyckoff-Franklin Lakes, NJ
Breaking News
Franklin Lakes Police Continue Picking Drivers With Drugs, Outstanding Warrants Off Route 208 Franklin Lakes Police Continue Picking Drivers With Drugs, Outstanding Warrants Off Route 208 Franklin Lakes Police Continue Picking Drivers With Drugs, Outstanding Warrants Off Route 208
Franklin Lakes Police Continue Picking Drivers With Drugs, Outstanding Warrants Off Route 208 Numbers continue rising of drivers found with drugs or outstanding warrants after being stopped on Route 208, say Franklin Lakes police who’ve been arresting them. According to Capt. John Bakelaar: Officer Eric Rosado arrested 24-year-old Chadwick Quinones of Hewitt for possession of heroin around 9:45 p.m. Monday. Eight hours earlier, Officer Ryan Sweeney arrested Alicia Gonzalez, 42, of Paterson on an outstanding warrant from the Silk City. An Easton, PA driver, 39-year-old Lateefah Terry, was arrested on Smoke Hollow Trail, just off the highway, around 9 a.m. Monday for outstanding Gle…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Feds Accuse 4th Paterson Police Officer Of Stopping, Robbing Civilians Feds Accuse 4th Paterson Police Officer Of Stopping, Robbing Civilians Feds Accuse 4th Paterson Police Officer Of Stopping, Robbing Civilians
Feds Accuse 4th Paterson Police Officer Of Stopping, Robbing Civilians The FBI on Tuesday arrested a fourth Paterson police officer on charges of targeting pedestrians and motorists for stops just to steal their money. Federal authorities charged 32-year-old Daniel Pent of Paterson with conspiring to deprive the victims of their civil rights “under color of law.” Pent was part of a group of rogue city officers who “stopped and searched motor vehicles without any justification and stole cash and other items from the occupants,” U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said. They also “illegally stopped and searched individuals in buildings or on the streets of Paterson a…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
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VIDEO: Firefighter Injured As Blaze Rips Through Three Jersey City Homes VIDEO: Firefighter Injured As Blaze Rips Through Three Jersey City Homes VIDEO: Firefighter Injured As Blaze Rips Through Three Jersey City Homes
Video: Firefighter Injured As Blaze Rips Through Three Jersey City Homes A Jersey City firefighter was hospitalized but no other injuries were reported in a five-alarm blaze that ripped through three homes just before dawn Tuesday, authorities said. The fire broke out in one home on Wegman Parkway near Ocean Avenue and then spread to two others, Councilman Daniel Rivera said. City police were immediately at the scene, alerting residents to get out. “Kudos to them as well [as the firefighters],” Rivera said. It was the third blaze city firefighters had to contend with overnight, the councilman noted. Neighboring municipalities sent their firefighters, he noted…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
Breaking News
SEE ANYTHING? Guns Shown In Fairview Home Invasion SEE ANYTHING? Guns Shown In Fairview Home Invasion SEE ANYTHING? Guns Shown In Fairview Home Invasion
SEE Anything? Guns Shown In Fairview Home Invasion Fairview detectives investigating a gunpoint home invasion turned to the public for help. They asked that residents in the 300 block of Delano Place and surrounding area check their video surveillance footage from 11 p.m. Monday until midnight. "It is believed they initially left the area on foot" with an undisclosed amount of cash, the chief added. No one was injured, he said. Kahn asked that anyone who sees anything at all suspicious on their video to contact Fairview police immediately: (201) 943-2100. The same goes for anyone who might have been out at that time or looking from their…

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Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
Breaking News
Police: Unlicensed Teen Leads Low-Speed Chase On Tire Rim From Glen Rock To Garden State Plaza Police: Unlicensed Teen Leads Low-Speed Chase On Tire Rim From Glen Rock To Garden State Plaza Police: Unlicensed Teen Leads Low-Speed Chase On Tire Rim From Glen Rock To Garden State Plaza
Police: Unlicensed Teen Leads Low-Speed Chase On Tire Rim From Glen Rock To Garden State Plaza One of his wheels had only a rim as a 17-year-old unlicensed Ridgewood driver led police on a 4½-mile low-speed chase from Glen Rock to the Garden State Plaza in Paramus in an unregistered, uninsured car, authorities said. The car slammed into curbs, blowing the tire, on southbound Route 208 after Officer John Tarantino tried to stop the boy in the area of Maple Avenue and Harristown Road before dawn last Tuesday, Police Chief Dean Ackermann said. He continued on at about 20 miles an hour all the way to the mall, “in a manner consistent with impairment or a medical condition,” the chief sai…

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Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
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Prank? Foul Play? Handyman Says Set Of Woman’s Clothing Found In Fair Lawn Woods Prank? Foul Play? Handyman Says Set Of Woman’s Clothing Found In Fair Lawn Woods Prank? Foul Play? Handyman Says Set Of Woman’s Clothing Found In Fair Lawn Woods
Prank? Foul Play? Handyman Says Set Of Woman’s Clothing Found In Fair Lawn Woods It’s a mystery, for sure, why a set of women’s clothing apparently wound up in a wooded section of Fair Lawn – only to be discovered months later near a handyman’s garage.  “If anybody has any information that could help, we ask that they call us,” Fair Lawn Police Sgt. Brian Metzler said Monday afternoon, as social media shares and comments began gaining steam. Handyman David Carota laid out each item after his wife, young daughter and two other kid found them rolled up near his garage.  He took photos and posted them on Facebook, along with theories on how the set of jeans (size 28), Ra…

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